All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
CATO THE YOUNGERSince it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government–a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave.
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Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
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For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren’t right for ourselves.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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The Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
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Since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
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It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
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For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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